Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of “surprising” growth
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Company achieves $2 billion CAD valuation after doubling customer base in 10 months.

Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of “surprising” growth

Pennarun confirmed the company had been approached by potential acquirers, but told BetaKit that the company intends to grow as a private company and work towards an initial public offering (IPO).

“Tailscale intends to remain independent and we are on a likely IPO track, although any IPO is several years out,” Pennarun said. “Meanwhile, we have an extremely efficient business model, rapid revenue acceleration, and a long runway that allows us to become profitable when needed, which means we can weather all kinds of economic storms.”

Keep that in mind as you ponder whether and when to switch to self-hosting Headscale.

  • fmstratEnglish
    54•8 days ago

    Join our Discord server for a chat and community support.

    Sigh…

    And even worse:

    Everything in Tailscale is Open Source, except the GUI clients for proprietary OS (Windows and macOS/iOS), and the control server.

    • Dr. MooseEnglish
      50•8 days ago

      everything is open source except half of all things.

      Lol

    • HealsEnglish
      14•8 days ago

      To be fair, anything the GUI clients do can be done with the CLI which is still open source and on all desktop platforms and headscale is literally their open source control server.

          • fmstratEnglish
            1•7 days ago

            Yes? There are Lemmy clients that are open source, for instance. And the Wireguard client is.

        • HealsEnglish
          2•8 days ago

          The iOS app is the exception for now but with the CLI and the core libs being open source it’s at least not off the table to make an alternate iOS client I’d say.

    • Avid AmoebaOPEnglish
      4•8 days ago

      Huh, I actually didn’t know this because I don’t use Windows/macOS/iOS. Somehow completely missed this.

      • fmstratEnglish
        4•8 days ago

        Granted this is not Headscale’s fault, they’re just using Tailscale clients. Either way I’m glad I use a roll-your-own Wireguard.

        I and my partner also don’t use those OSs, but it’s more the point of using FOSS when we can.